Whee! Kiriban picture for ! She requested canon Dr Watson and Sherlock discussing a case over breakfast. This started out a just a sketch to get the composition right, but it turned out so nice I decided to turn it into a full image. There is a huge crease in the paper (cause I was really impatient and tore it from the paper stack with too much force) running from Holmes' feet to the upper right corner, though, Wiggsly, so in stead of giving you the original I will get you a print! Hope you like it!I tried very hard not to make Watson look like Jude Law. It was very difficult

Lovely drawing! The crosshatching and shading with the graphite gives the whole drawing a very nice vintage-y-grungy character!Nice shading tecniques btw!You have kept the focus in a triangle that goes from their faces and down to the table, letting the main composition become more dynamic as the very bottom of the drawing is very flat (it works great!)But when your eyes travel around in that focus-triangle the shadow on Holmes' face and on Watson's jacket-sleeve looks a bit strange.Those are the only things that are shaded like that (lineart, very light, hard border then shadow) Maybe it needs to be softened a little? I dont know...But non the less the style of the drawing and the drawing itself really overwhelms that tiny thingie so it is not anything bothersome! (You're very talented!)

Oh my god, you're right! The more I look at Holmes' face now, the weirder it becomes I was trying a new sort of sketchy style here, but I guess out of habit I shaded certain areas differently. Also I remember getting a bit annoyed with the shading on Watson's arm, cause I was using cheap ass printer paper that's way too smooth and slippery for the kind of pencil I was using

I don't know how I didn't see this one before. Love though!! I am such a sucker for Holme and Watson. Funny.. is this how you pictured them when you read the stories (the ones you did read in school)? This is very close to how I pictured them

Hmm, I don't really know, I read them in my first or second year, so that's five or six years ago. For this drawing I had a look at some old illustrations like this one: [link] Very pleased with how this turned out :3

This is so funny because they're both doing something else - playing the violin and drinking tea - but they don't seem to be paying attention to that at all, and we can really see they're discussing something - obviously a case, since Sherlock's interested. Very nice! And Watson definitely doesn't look like Jude Law. But wait, why didn't you want him to look like him? xD

Oh, the commissioner specifically asked for canon Sherlock, so no Judes, Roberts, Martins or Benedicts allowed! I love Jude's Watson, though, and I find it very hard to picture Watson not looking like him in my head ;3 Thanks for your kind words!

Oh I see! xD Well your Watson and Holmes don't look like any of those so that's definitely a success I find it really hard to picture ACD's Watson without thinking of J Law now, so I can see how that might have been a challenge!